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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120050291 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING USING TWO-DIMENSIONAL SCISSOR REGIONS Aspects of this disclosure are directed to techniques to store values indicative of one or more scissor regions in a scissor buffer. In aspects of this disclosure, a processor may receive two dimensional (2-D) coordinates of a scissor region. The processor may transform... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110319875 | Apparatus and Method for Morphing a Three-Dimensional Target Surface into a Two-Dimensional Image for Use in Guiding a Laser Beam in Ocular Surgery An apparatus and method for ocular surgery includes a delivery system for generating and guiding a surgical laser beam to a focal point on a target surface in a treatment area of an eye. A detector is coupled to the beam path of the surgical laser to create a three-dime... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110298803 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING MEDIA CONTENT A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor including a controller to receive a broadcast of media content comprising three-dimensional image content for presentation on a display device operably coupled wit... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110286660 | Spatially Registering User Photographs Photographs of an object may be oriented with respect to both the geographic location and orientation of the object by registering a 3D model derived from a plurality of photographs of the objects with a 2D image of the object having a known location and orientation. Fo... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110279455 | SKETCHED OVERDRAWN LINES FOR EDITING SPLINE-BASED THREE-DIMENSIONAL CURVES An overdraw method for editing a three-dimensional geometry includes receiving a three-dimensional geometry including a plurality of individual curves whose positions are defined by a plurality of control points, receiving a polyline overdrawn on the three-dimensional g... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110273451 | COMPUTER SIMULATION OF VISUAL IMAGES USING 2D SPHERICAL IMAGES EXTRACTED FROM 3D DATA A system, method, and computer-readable instructions for virtual real-time computer simulation of visual images of perspective scenes. A plurality of 2D spherical images are saved as a data set including 3D positional information of the 2D spherical images corresponding... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110254846 | USER ADAPTIVE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF Provided are a user adaptive display device and method thereof. The user adaptive display device includes a plurality of display modules that are jointly or individually controllable and adjacent to each other. The user adaptive display device includes a communication u... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110254845 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS The present invention proposes an image processing method and an image processing apparatus, in which an object of interest is selected in a three-dimensional scene by using information on a section parallel to a sight line, and a surface is generated to divide the line... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110242105 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD The present invention relates to an image processing device and method whereby an image and so forth that a contents producer intends can be displayed in a case where a stereoscopic image content is displayed as a 2D image. A generating uni... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110227923 | IMAGE SYNTHESIS METHOD With the ubiquity of new information technology and media, face and facial expression recognition technologies have been receiving significant attention. For face recognition systems, detecting the locations in two-dimension (2D) images where faces are present is a firs... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110228055 | SPACE SKIPPING FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE RENDERING Space skipping for multi-dimensional image rendering is described. In an embodiment a ray-casting engine is used to form a two dimensional image from an at least three dimensional image volume by computing rays extending from a camera location, through the two dimension... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110227924 | 3D MODELING APPARATUS, 3D MODELING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM A 3D modeling apparatus includes: an accepting unit configured to accept sets of images; a generator configured to generate 3D models of a subject based on the sets of images; a selector configured to select first and second 3D models from the 3D models, wherein the sec... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110205228 | VIRTUAL TRACE-MULTIPLE VIEW MODELING SYSTEM AND METHOD A system for generating two-dimensional views of a three-dimensional model is provided. The system includes an active building model system generating one or more user-selected two-dimensional views of a three-dimensional building model. A floor plan view location syste... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110199379 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING A LAYERED DEPTH MODEL OF A SCENE The invention relates to a device and method of providing a layered depth model of a scene, the layers of the depth model comprising primary view information for a primary view of the scene from a primary viewing direction and occlusion information associated with the p... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110187716 | USER INTERFACES FOR INTERACTING WITH TOP-DOWN MAPS OF RECONSTRUCTED 3-D SCENES Technologies are described herein for providing user interfaces through which a user may interact with a top-down map of a reconstructed structure within a 3-D scene. An application provides one or more user interfaces allowing a user to select a camera pose, a reconstr... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181593 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, 3D DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a setting unit, a transform unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a parallax value of each pixel of a plurality of images having a parallax. The s... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110169832 | 3D Motion Interface Systems and Methods A 3D interface system for moving the at least one digital displayed object based on movement of the at least one physical object. The 3D interface system comprises a display system for displaying 3D images, a sensor input system, and a computing system. The sensor input... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110157179 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY BASED ON MARKER TRACKING, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREOF A method, a system, and a computer program product for providing augmented reality based on marker tracking are provided. In the method, an image is captured by an image capturing unit, and whether a quadrangle is present in the image is determined. If the quadrangle is... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157331 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE REPRODUCTION METHOD IN CASE OF PAUSE MODE AND STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS USING SAME An apparatus, which forms a stereoscopic image by alternately displaying a left image and a right image, for reproducing a stereoscopic image in a pause mode, includes: a decoder unit configured to perform decoding on received image information; a 3D format generation u... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110141113 | INTEGRATION OF GRAPHICAL APPLICATION CONTENT INTO THE GRAPHICAL SCENE OF ANOTHER APPLICATION This application describes a system that captures 3D geometry commands from a first 3D graphics process and stores them in a shared memory. A second 3D environment process creates a 3D display environment using a display and display hardware. A third process obtains the... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110134123 | METHOD, APPARATUS, MEDIA, AND SIGNALS FOR APPLYING A SHAPE TRANSFORMATION TO A THREE DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION A method, apparatus, media and signals for applying a shape transformation to at least a portion of a three dimensional representation of an appliance for a living body is disclosed. The representation is defined by an input plurality of coordinates representing a gener... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110098566 | THICK-SLICE ULTRASOUND IMAGES DERIVED FROM ULTRASONIC SCANS OF A CHESTWARDLY-COMPRESSED BREAST OF A SUPINE PATIENT Displaying breast ultrasound information on an interactive user interface is described, the user interface being useful in adjunctive ultrasound mammography environments and/or ultrasound-only mammography environments. Bilateral comparison is facilitated by a pairwise d... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096151 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NOISE REDUCTION FOR 3D VIDEO CONTENT A video processing system receives left and right 3D video and/or graphics frames and generates noise reduced left 3D video, right 3D video and/or graphics frames based on parallax compensated left and right frames. Displacement of imagery and/or pixel structures is det... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110090225 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING LEVEL OF DETAIL SCHEMES A method for level of detail in a 3D environment application involves establishing a tiered system for processing a graphical object at a distance from a perspective point. The tiered system comprises a first level and a second level, the first level for processing the ... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110074785 | PROJECTION IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM A method for generating a projection image from three-dimensional image data, including the steps of determining first three-dimensional image data to be projected from the three-dimensional image data, generating a first projection image by projecting the first three-d... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110074784 | GRADIENT MODELING TOOLKIT FOR SCULPTING STEREOSCOPIC DEPTH MODELS FOR CONVERTING 2-D IMAGES INTO STEREOSCOPIC 3-D IMAGES Implementations of the present invention involve methods and systems for creating depth and volume in a 2-D planar image to create an associated 3-D image by utilizing a plurality of layers of the 2-D image, where each layer comprises one or more portions of the 2-D ima... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110069071 | 3D Virtual Environment for Generating Variable Data Images Embodiments described herein are directed to generating a variable data image using a variable data image generator. The variable data image generator assigns a variable identifier to a specified location in a 3D scene to identify the specified location as being variabl... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110063298 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RENDERING 3D GRAPHICS BASED ON 3D DISPLAY CAPABILITIES A first 3D graphics and/or 3D video processing device generates left and right view 3D graphics frames comprising 3D content which are communicated to a 3D display device for display. The 3D frames are generated based on a display format utilized by the 3D display devic... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110043524 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONVERTING A 3D VIDEO WITH TARGETED ADVERTISEMENT INTO A 2D VIDEO FOR DISPLAY A video receiver receives a compound transport stream (TS) comprising 3D program video streams and spliced advertising streams. The received one or more 3D program video streams are extracted and decoded. Targeted advertising streams are extracted from the received adve... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043525 | DRAWING CORRECTION ASSISTING APPARATUS, DRAWING CORRECTION ASSISTING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM A drawing correction assisting method executed by a computer, the method includes: dividing a drawing area of two-dimensional drawing data into unit areas and storing positional information for every unit area in a storage unit; allocating at least one of the unit areas... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110001790 | Method of Simulating Blur in Digitally Processed Images In an image processing method, a first two-dimensional image (I(x, y)) of a three-dimensional scene is obtained. Each pixel location of a first image is associated with a respective distance parameter (z(x, y)) representing a distance of a viewer's eye to an object of t... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100328311 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING CORRESPONDENCE, MATCHING AND REPAIRING THREE DIMENSIONAL SURFACES OF ARBITRARY GENUS AND ARBITRARY TOPOLOGY IN TWO DIMENSIONS USING GLOBAL PARAMETERIZATION A system, method and computer program product for parameterizing a 3D surface of genus g and arbitrary topology to the 2D plane. The method includes receiving an input 3D mesh of genus g; computing n discrete harmonic one-forms on the surface of the mesh to obtain n num... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100321390 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSFORMATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO A method of transforming a 3D video format of a 3D video, the method including receiving a video sequence comprising 3D video that includes left-viewpoint video and right-viewpoint video; estimating at least one of disparity information between the left-viewpoint video ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321389 | System and method for rendering in accordance with location of virtual objects in real-time There is provided a system and method for rendering in accordance with location of virtual objects in real-time. There is provided a method for persistent association of a graphic overlay with a virtual object in a displayable environment, comprising receiving a first t... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321388 | Temporal parallax induced display A temporal parallax induced display includes the presentation of different views of a scene. The system likewise uses a model of the human visual system to modify the image to reduce the rocking artifacts.... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100315487 | MEDICAL IMAGING METHOD IN WHICH VIEWS CORRESPONDING TO 3D IMAGES ARE SUPERIMPOSED OVER 2D IMAGES A method using an imaging device to define an acquisition geometry for 2D images of an observation region, a region for which there exists a 3D representation. 2D views of the 3D representation can be determined following the acquisition geometry of the imaging device f... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100315424 | COMPUTER GRAPHIC GENERATION AND DISPLAY METHOD AND SYSTEM A computer-implemented method is provided for generating and transforming graphics related to an object. The method includes obtaining one or more images taken from different points of view of the object, and a surface of the object is placed with a plurality of externa... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100295854 | VIEWPOINT-INVARIANT IMAGE MATCHING AND GENERATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS FROM TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGERY A method and system for characterizing features in a source multifeatured three-dimensional object and for locating a best-matching three-dimensional object from a reference database of such objects by performing a viewpoint invariant search among the reference objects.... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100295855 | METHOD FOR GENERATING ORTHOPHOTO IMAGE The present invention relates to a method for generating an orthophoto image. The method can be used to utilize an orthophoto image mainly for creation of a topographic map or as a photographic map. [Problem to be solved] An object is to pr... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100289869 | Method of Calibrating Interior and Exterior Orientation Parameters The present invention calibrates interior orientation parameters (IOP) and exterior orientation parameters (EOP). With the calibrated IOPs and EOPs, a remotely controlled camera can quickly obtains corresponding IOPs and EOPs no matter on panning, tilting or zooming. Th... | 11/18/2010 |
